Resource Name:
Resource Type:
External Resource
Asset Name:
E006166 - Thornton, Thomas (1903 - 1966)
Title:
Thornton, Thomas (1903 - 1966)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E006166
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2014-10-20
Subject:
Description:
Obituary for Thornton, Thomas (1903 - 1966), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Thornton, Thomas
Date of Birth:
1903
Date of Death:
4 March 1966
Place of Death:
Grenada, British West Indies
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS and FRCS 1931
MB BCh St Andrews 1926
Details:
Born about 1903, Thornton was educated at St Andrew's University, qualifying in 1926. After working at the Middlesex and the London Hospital he entered the Colonial Medical Service, and was a civil surgeon successively in Iraq, Malaya and Cyprus. He took the Fellowship in June 1931.
He settled later at 10 Mentone Terrace, Edinburgh, but died suddenly, in his early sixties, in Grenada, British West Indies on 4 March 1966, survived by his wife, Nancy Hamilton.
Sources:
*The Times* 8 March 1966, without memoir
Rights:
Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Collection:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Format:
Obituary
Format:
Asset
Asset Path:
Root/Lives of the Fellows/E006000-E006999/E006100-E006199
Media Type:
Unknown
